On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 05:41:42AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Never mind, the PPC people will implement this with lwsync and that is > > very much not transitive IIRC. > > I am probably lost on context, but... > > It turns out that lwsync is transitive in special cases. One of them > is a series of release-acquire pairs, which can extend indefinitely. > > Does that help in this case?
Probably not, but good to know. I still don't think we want to rely on ACQUIRE/RELEASE being transitive in general though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
